Arc 27War Against the Weird Plateau

Yan Kuan and Ye Fan shepherded the next generation through rivalries and transformations before joining the great battles across the Immortal Realm and the River of Time. Yan Kuan ultimately challenged the Soul River and its Chief Sacrificer, then reunited with Shi Hao in Calamity Earth as they faced the Weird Plateau.

  • Ye Fan returned from his sixth-life transformation, and Wang Bo rose from a defeated Chaos Heavenly Emperor to reach the Heavenly Emperor Level before the Undying Heavenly Emperor nearly seized his Dao Fruit.
  • Ye Fan entered his Dream of Ten Thousand Ages, while Yan Kuan rescued Ye Yishui and arranged for his baptism with the Beginningless Great Emperor’s essence blood.
  • The White-Clad Empress reclaimed her power, and Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son became rival prodigies whose final imperial battle ended with Ye Yishui’s victory before the Undying Heavenly Emperor rescued his son.
  • Ye Fan completed his Nine-Life Mortal Immortal Path, and Yan Kuan, Ye Fan, and their allies entered a strange world, where Yan Kuan defeated the Fallen Blood Phoenix and then Emperor Lord.
  • Yan Kuan opened the Immortal Realm for Ye Fan and the others, returned upstream through time, and joined Shi Hao in defeating the Corpse Immortal Emperor before helping stabilize the damaged realms.
  • Yan Kuan confronted the Soul River’s invasion, destroyed its Main Sacrificial Ground, and battled the Chief Sacrificer, eventually restraining the Sacrificial Ground and taking the Gray Chief Priest to the Bridge of Life and Death.
  • Yan Kuan told the Empress he wanted Xiao Nannan back and warned them to keep Little Stone from attacking the Plateau directly.
  • Shi Hao fought the Weird Immortal Emperors in Calamity Earth, and Yan Kuan arrived with the Gray Chief Priest’s head and explained that entering the Weird Plateau required embracing ominousness or being escorted by a Weird Ancestor.
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Ch. 676The Tactful Godslaying Insect, an Innate Chaos Body Appears

The Godslaying Emperor challenged the Heavenly Court, but Ye Fan struck him down and revealed that he was still alive. A thousand years later, Ye Fan completed his sixth-life transformation, and more than ten thousand years of peace followed before an Innate Chaos Body appeared in the Mortal World.

  • After Ji Chengdao left, the Divine One and other Alternative Dao Achievers challenged the Godslaying Emperor to temper themselves.
  • Eight thousand years of battles later, the Godslaying Emperor led the Godslaying Insect lineage to Big Dipper and tried to enter the Heavenly Court.
  • Ye Fan struck the Godslaying Emperor with a Chaos finger, and a hand from Undying Mountain seized him before he later reappeared and stopped provoking the Heavenly Court.
  • In the 216,000th year of the Heavenly Emperor Calendar, Ye Fan returned after a century-long transformation and emerged from his Chaos Body, having lived his sixth life.
  • Ye Fan visited Yan Kuan and Xiao Nannan in the Divine Medicine Garden, where Yan Kuan showed him a Pureblood Godslaying Insect cultivated from the Godslaying Emperor's origin blood essence.
  • After more than ten thousand years of peace, an Innate Chaos Body appeared in the Mortal World and alarmed the Mortal World Supremes.

Ch. 677The Chaos Heavenly Emperor Reduced to a Child

Ye Fan and Yan Kuan arranged for Shenwa Yufeng to train against the Chaos Body Wang Bo, who rose to become the Chaos Heavenly Emperor and challenged Ye Fan. After Ye Fan defeated him in fewer than ten moves, Wang Bo disappeared, and a boy appeared in Undying Mountain.

  • Ye Fan learned that Wang Bo was the Mythological Era Chaos Body who had survived his death, and Yan Kuan suggested having Divine Child face him.
  • Ye Fan trained Shenwa Yufeng and sent him to fight Wang Bo; Yufeng lost their first battle, then improved through repeated duels until the two became the age’s leading rivals.
  • Ye Fan and Yan Kuan sealed Yufeng in Immortal Source when he reached the Quasi-Emperor realm, while Wang Bo fought Alternative Path to Dao Supremes for a thousand years before attaining Great Emperor status.
  • Wang Bo underwent Ultimate Sublimation, named himself the Chaos Heavenly Emperor, and challenged Ye Fan on the Big Dipper five hundred years later.
  • Ye Fan defeated Wang Bo in fewer than ten moves; Wang Bo vanished, and a boy appeared sweeping the ground in Undying Mountain.

Ch. 678Chaos Dao Fruit, Undying Heavenly Emperor Reappears in the Mortal World

Chaos Body Wang Bo continued cultivating in Undying Mountain, where Yan Kuan warned him against cutting away his innate Chaos Origin and guided him toward advancing his Chaos Dao Fruit. After Wang Bo transformed into a Heavenly Emperor, the revived Undying Heavenly Emperor ambushed him with the Five-Colored Immortal Blade and left him near death.

  • Wang Bo tended the Divine Medicine Garden and encountered Divine Child, Little Holy Ape, and Little Divine Silkworm, who were later caught and disciplined by Yan Kuan.
  • Yan Kuan advised Wang Bo that, unlike Ye Fan and the Empress, his Innate Chaos Origin was not a shackle to cut away and that he should advance his Chaos Dao Fruit.
  • Wang Bo studied scriptures in Undying Mountain for years, and his Chaos Heavenly Heart suppressed the universe as he quietly cultivated.
  • On the day Wang Bo turned twenty thousand, he sought a transformation in the source of the universe and advanced to the Heavenly Emperor Level.
  • The revived Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked Wang Bo with the Five-Colored Immortal Blade, shattered his Chaos weapon, and repeatedly wounded him as he tried to flee.
  • Wang Bo fell through the barrier of the Nine Heavens into the starry sky, but the Undying Heavenly Emperor caught up and prepared to seize his Dao Fruit and Origin.

Ch. 679Heavenly Emperor Against Heavenly Emperor, Sage Prince's Killing Intent

The Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked Wang Bo to seize his Dao Fruit, but the Mystic Gate and Heavenly Court intervened before Ye Fan fought him across worlds. The Undying Heavenly Emperor withdrew with the Divine Soul Pool and Undying Heavenly Blade, leaving Wang Bo gravely injured and Ye Fan warning that their enemy remained formidable.

  • Desolate Tower and the heroes of the Mystic Gate and Heavenly Court stopped the Undying Heavenly Emperor from finishing his attack on Wang Bo.
  • Yan Kuan and Ye Fan confronted the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who revealed that he had returned from death using the Divine Soul Pool, Ascension Waterfall, and Reincarnation Lake.
  • Ye Fan fought the Undying Heavenly Emperor across worlds, striking his hand and forcing it to retreat into the Divine Soul Pool.
  • The Undying Heavenly Emperor withdrew with the Divine Soul Pool and Undying Heavenly Blade, while Wang Bo was taken back to Undying Mountain with severe injuries.
  • Ye Fan warned Sage Prince and the others not to underestimate the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and Wang Bo struggled to suppress his wounds.

Ch. 680Ye Fan's Hundred Lifetimes of Samsara: A Dog Can't Be Too Black Emperor

Wang Bo left the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to cultivate in the Interstice World, while Ye Fan nearly died during his seventh transformation and entered a dreamlike journey through mortal lives. Black Emperor discovered an Innate Dao Fetus named Chenxi and persuaded Ye Fan’s artifacts to help alter his path; the chapter ended as Ye Fan arrived on her ancient star.

  • Wang Bo departed for the Interstice World, and Alternative Dao Achievers began attaining Dao in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
  • Ye Fan nearly Dissolved into Dao during his seventh transformation, and Black Emperor sealed him away while he entered a state of Dao Enlightenment.
  • Black Emperor identified Ye Fan’s state as Dream of Ten Thousand Ages and watched him live and die through numerous mortal lifetimes.
  • Black Emperor found Chenxi, an Innate Dao Fetus, and chose to let her life proceed naturally while arranging for her protection.
  • Black Emperor persuaded the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron and the Desolate Tower to influence Ye Fan’s subconscious and change his path.
  • Ye Fan arrived in Qingyun Province on Gouchen Star.

Ch. 681Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, West Queen Mother of the Jade Pool Ruins

Ye Fan awakened from his mortal life with Chenxi, rescued her from Divine Source, and returned to slumber while the Black Emperor arranged matters for their son, Ye Yishui. Yan Kuan took Ye Yishui and the Black Emperor to the Jade Pool Ruins, where he discovered the preserved body of the West Queen Mother.

  • The Black Emperor regretted hiding Ye Yishui’s birth from Chenxi, but after Chenxi died and Ye Fan later awakened, Ye Fan recovered her from Divine Source and brought her to the Heavenly Court.
  • Ye Fan returned to slumber with Chenxi, while the Black Emperor moved her to the sealing grounds and prepared to nourish Ye Yishui within Divine Source.
  • Yan Kuan confronted the Black Emperor and took it and Ye Yishui to the Jade Pool Ruins on Big Dipper Ancient Star.
  • Yan Kuan kicked the Black Emperor into the Immortal Lake, then led it through the spring’s hidden world to its deepest level.
  • Yan Kuan found the unblemished body of the West Queen Mother, mother of the Beginningless Great Emperor, preserved in a small pool and surrounded by a Weirdness aura.

Ch. 682The Desire to Save One’s Parents; Wu Shi the Great

Yan Kuan uncovered the fate of Wushi’s parents and Beginningless Great Emperor’s sealed essence blood, then used it with a formation to summon a manifestation of Beginningless Great Emperor. Black Emperor reunited with his long-lost master, who acknowledged Ye Yishui and said that matters in the Mortal World still needed attention.

  • Yan Kuan revealed that Wushi’s father had asked the Western Emperor to end his transformed life, and that she later sealed Wushi away while grieving for her husband.
  • Yan Kuan returned the Western Emperor and Wushi’s father to the Emperor Coffin and uncovered a Stone Chest containing Beginningless Great Emperor’s essence blood and instructions for Black Emperor.
  • Black Emperor recognized the Great Emperor’s voice and lamented that the prepared means of summoning him had required an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo.
  • Yan Kuan brought Ye Hei’s younger son to the Heavenly Court and used the essence blood on Beginningless Great Emperor’s miniature formation, opening a gateway.
  • Beginningless Great Emperor appeared through the gateway, greeted Black Emperor, and praised Ye Yishui as a fine child before saying that matters in the Mortal World still required him.

Ch. 683News of the Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son

Yan Kuan used the Beginningless Great Emperor’s essence blood to baptize Ye Yishui, while the Black Emperor ordered Heavenly Court to track the returning Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s mysterious Stone Egg. After tens of thousands of years of relative peace, a great change shook the starfield around the Feathered Ancient Star.

  • Yan Kuan awakened Wushi’s incarnation and obtained the Beginningless Great Emperor’s agreement to use his essence blood to baptize Ye Yishui.
  • Yan Kuan combined the essence blood with ancient medicines and Divine Spring water in the Myriad Things Mother Qi Cauldron, then placed Ye Yishui’s Divine Source inside for the baptism.
  • Pang Bo’s descendant reported that the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin had reappeared and that an Immortal Egg was absorbing Immortal Essence, so the Black Emperor ordered Heavenly Court to track both phenomena.
  • Heavenly Court’s search parties failed to catch the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin or find the Stone Egg, which people believed was the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s Second Son.
  • After tens of thousands of years passed, a great change shook the starfield where the Feathered Ancient Star was located.

Ch. 684Fortune and Misfortune, the Tragic Feathered Great Emperor

After 400,000 years of Ye Fan’s era, the Feathered Great Emperor emerged from his Stone Womb on the Feathered Ancient Star and attained the Ultimate Dao. His return stirred the Empress’s memories of her brother’s death, and she reclaimed her scattered power before confronting him, leaving the story with the Feathered Great Emperor too frightened to leave his star.

  • Ye Fan severed his Sacred Body origin and returned to an ordinary mortal body in his eighth life.
  • The Feathered Great Emperor completed his transformation into a perfect Sacred Spirit, emerged from the Stone Womb, and attained the Ultimate Dao.
  • The Feathered Great Emperor restored the Feathered God Dynasty and spread his Stone Statues across the universe.
  • The White-Clad Empress awoke, and Xiao Nannan clutched Yan Kuan in fear as the Empress reclaimed the power and souls she had split apart.
  • The Empress shattered every Feathered Stone Statue and confronted the Feathered Great Emperor, then left without attacking him.
  • The Feathered Great Emperor remained on the Feathered Ancient Star for the rest of his life.

Ch. 685The Strongest Prodigy Showdown in History

Xiao Nannan returned to the Ruthless Great Empress, who revealed that Ye Fan resembled the brother she had waited for but was not him; she left without trying to remake Ye Fan in her brother’s image. Later, the Heavenly Emperor Second Son emerged as a Five-Colored Divine Phoenix, while Ye Yishui was born as an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, setting the stage for a clash between two prodigies.

  • Yan Kuan brought Xiao Nannan to the Heavenly Court, where she returned to the Ruthless Great Empress and regained her full power.
  • The Empress showed Ye Fan memories of her impoverished childhood with her brother and explained that she had waited for him, not Ye Fan.
  • Yan Kuan summoned Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin, and the Empress revealed she had placed a Dao Convergence Flower inside for her brother.
  • The Empress considered placing her brother’s memories into Ye Fan but left without doing so, and Yan Kuan departed with Xiao Nannan.
  • A Stone Egg cracked open to reveal the Heavenly Emperor Second Son, a Five-Colored Divine Phoenix, while Black Emperor opened the Beginningless Scripture for the newborn Ye Yishui.
  • Ye Yishui began cultivating as an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, and Yan Kuan watched with interest as the two prodigies’ future clash approached.

Ch. 686Past and Present, Once More Outside the City of True Sages

Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son met in True Sage Ancient City and began the long-awaited duel between two prodigies. Their nine-day battle ended without a victor, and both grew stronger as they fought.

  • Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son grew into rival prodigies, each breaking records and becoming a King before their confrontation.
  • The Black Emperor warned Ye Yishui that the Heavenly Emperor Second Son could become his lifelong rival, and Ye Yishui remembered the warning.
  • The two met in a teahouse in True Sage Ancient City, discussed the Second Son’s slain elder brother, and revealed matching Undying Heavenly Blade Imitations.
  • Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son left the city and unleashed a battle that shocked spectators with power beyond the King realm.
  • The rivals fought for nine days and nine nights, advancing toward Great Accomplishment King before their evenly matched duel ended without a result.

Ch. 687Little Nannan and a Bunch of Little Tater Tots

Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son fought a battle that pushed them into Great Accomplishment King tribulations. Their duel was interrupted by Xiao Nannan and a group of Yan Kuan’s young children, whom Yan Kuan had unsealed to play and train in the Mortal World.

  • Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son clashed with their inherited techniques, devastating the Great Wilderness and injuring each other.
  • The Heavenly Emperor Second Son summoned meteors from beyond the realm, but Ye Yishui smashed them apart and counterattacked at close range.
  • Ye Yishui used the Dou Character Art while the Heavenly Emperor Second Son used the Secret of Healing, and their battle tore open the heavens.
  • Ye Yishui and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son broke through into Great Accomplishment Kings as their tribulations appeared above them.
  • A group of little children shouted encouragement to Ye Yishui, and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son recognized them as descendants of the Chaos Great Emperor.
  • Xiao Nannan quieted Little Dragon and Little Qilin while the story revealed that Yan Kuan had unsealed his children and their mothers so the children could play and test themselves against the Heavenly Emperor Second Son.

Ch. 688An Unprecedented Age of Madness

Yan Kuan’s children and the Heavenly Emperor Second Son grew into peerless rivals alongside Ye Yishui, who defeated him in their final imperial battle. The Undying Heavenly Emperor rescued his son, and Yan Kuan suspected he had detected an early trace of the dark power behind the Weird Plateau.

  • Yan Kuan praised Little Phoenix’s talent, but Little Qilin and Little True Dragon attacked him after he insulted their father, leaving the Heavenly Emperor Second Son badly wounded before he fled.
  • Over the following centuries, Ye Yishui, the Heavenly Emperor Second Son, and Yan Kuan’s children advanced through fierce battles, setting cultivation records and reaching the Emperor Realm.
  • The Black Emperor asked Yan Kuan to predict Ye Yishui’s victory, but Yan Kuan refused and left their decisive battle to them.
  • Ye Yishui defeated the Heavenly Emperor Second Son in their final imperial battle, but Ye Fan and Yan Kuan could not stop the Undying Heavenly Emperor from rescuing his son.
  • After clashing with the Undying Heavenly Emperor, Yan Kuan noticed dark power in his strength and wondered whether it was connected to the Weird Plateau.

Ch. 690Multiple Emperors Coexisting, Conquering the Immortal Path

After becoming a Mortal Immortal, Ye Fan gathered the emperors and the Heavenly Court army to begin their promised conquest of the Immortal Path. They entered a fragmented world mistaken for the Immortal Realm, where Ye Fan and Yan Kuan recognized its origins and sensed another expert on their level.

  • Ye Fan completed his Nine-Life Mortal Immortal Path, forged a Nine-Colored Immortal Cauldron, and joined the awakened Empress as a Mortal Immortal while Yan Kuan's Divine Embodiment also became immortal.
  • Ye Fan and Yan Kuan raised an era of emperors by guiding their tribulations and supplying them with Nine Revolutions Emperor Pills, then Ye Fan awakened the Heavenly Court's veteran soldiers from Divine Source.
  • Ye Fan led the Heavenly Court army onto the Immortal Path without waiting for Duan De and punched open a passage into a strange world, explaining that they still had people and debts to face before reaching the Immortal Realm.
  • The Empress defeated a hostile Imperial Dao Expert, while Yan Kuan deduced that the strange world was likely a re-evolved fragment of the Foreign Realm or Immortal Realm after the ancient wars.
  • Ye Fan seized the world's Heavenly Heart imprint and warned Yan Kuan and the Empress that another expert at their level was present, provoking the local Heavenly Heart Emperor to emerge.

Ch. 691At the Sight of Wushi, the Dao Became Empty; the Fallen Blood Phoenix Showed Its Ferocity

Ye Fan and his allies invaded the Strange World and battled the Undying Heavenly Emperor’s forces while the Beginningless Great Emperor fought a native Mortal Immortal. Yan Kuan confronted the Undying Heavenly Emperor, who transformed into a Fallen Blood Phoenix, and appeared to gain the upper hand even as the two displayed strangely similar phoenix techniques.

  • The Undying Heavenly Emperor proposed joining forces to enter the Immortal Realm, but Ye Fan refused and revealed the Immortal Treasure Map.
  • The Beginningless Great Emperor fought a Mortal Immortal of the Strange World, while the allied emperors and Supremes overwhelmed the enemy forces.
  • Yan Kuan challenged the Undying Heavenly Emperor, and Ye Fan and the Empress stabilized the battlefield as the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation blocked the opposing army.
  • The Undying Heavenly Emperor attacked with his Immortal Blade and phoenix techniques, but Yan Kuan’s Great Dao Treasure Vase chipped the blade and his counterattacks shook the world.
  • The Undying Heavenly Emperor revealed that he had become a Fallen Blood Phoenix after obtaining a Phoenix ancestor’s True Blood, then attacked Yan Kuan with the Blood Phoenix Slash.
  • Yan Kuan shattered the Blood Phoenix Slash and sent the Fallen Blood Phoenix flying, and the chapter ended as the enemy launched another phoenix technique that Yan Kuan mirrored.

Ch. 692Why Does the Lord of the Heavenly Court Rebel?

Yan Kuan and the Empress’s allies defeated the Undying Heavenly Emperor and the Strange World’s forces, only to discover Emperor Lord had survived and planned to refine both realms into a Cauldron. Yan Kuan defeated Emperor Lord, who admitted he did not know why he had rebelled, and prepared to set out again.

  • Yan Kuan defeated the Undying Heavenly Emperor as the Beginningless Great Emperor killed the Strange World’s Mortal Immortal, and the Empress broke the Undying Heavenly Blade to protect Yan Kuan.
  • After Yan Kuan killed the Undying Heavenly Emperor and his son, Emperor Lord revealed himself and attempted to refine the world and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths into a Cauldron.
  • The Beginningless Great Emperor used the Deification Scroll to disrupt Emperor Lord’s plan, while Duan De arrived with the Nine Reincarnation Seals and helped stabilize the Human Realm.
  • Yan Kuan confronted Emperor Lord alone and challenged him over why the Lord of the Heavenly Court had rebelled.
  • Yan Kuan shattered Emperor Lord’s phenomena and defeated him; Emperor Lord said he did not know why he had rebelled before turning to ashes.
  • Yan Kuan collected and refined Emperor Lord’s mark, then prepared to set out again.

Ch. 693The Immortal Emperor’s Corpse Gets Beaten Up

Yan Kuan returned to the Chaotic Ancient era as Shi Hao reassembled and became an Immortal Emperor, and together they confronted the fully restored, darkened Corpse Immortal Emperor. Yan Kuan overwhelmed him, leaving the Corpse Immortal Emperor shattered and blaming his defeat on the karma of disturbing time.

  • Yan Kuan opened the Immortal Realm for Ye Fan, the Empress, Wushi, Duan De, and the others, then said goodbye to Xiao Nannan and returned upstream through the River of Time and Space.
  • Shi Hao reassembled from drops of blood after perfecting Transformation Freedom and He Transforms Eternity, and appeared before Yan Kuan and the Corpse Immortal Emperor as a true Immortal Emperor.
  • The Corpse Immortal Emperor restored his full power, broke his self-imposed seal, and attacked Yan Kuan and Shi Hao with the Great Luo Sword Embryo.
  • Shi Hao met the Corpse Immortal Emperor's sword strike with his bare palm while Yan Kuan suppressed the battle's shockwaves from spreading across the Boundary Sea.
  • Yan Kuan summoned nine Imperial Shadows and struck the Corpse Immortal Emperor, then pierced and shattered him with Emperor Fire and his fists.
  • The Corpse Immortal Emperor admitted he could not hold on but insisted that disturbing time and space, rather than Yan Kuan's strength, had caused his defeat.

Ch. 694Causal Closure, Blessing Pan Wang

Yan Kuan and Shi Hao ended the dark calamity, sealed the source of darkness, and freed survivors from the Dark Prisons before returning toward the shattered realms. As Shi Hao accepted that some events had to remain part of history, Pan Wang fell and was blessed into Samsara, while the damaged worlds slowly stabilized.

  • Yan Kuan and Shi Hao refined Corpse Immortal Emperor, discovered the portal to Above the Heavens, and sealed it against another dark calamity.
  • Shi Hao cleared the Dark Land, freed imprisoned cultivators, and reunited with the Double-Pupiled Woman, who asked him about Shi Yi.
  • Yan Kuan and Shi Hao returned with Willow Deity and the Small Pagoda, and Yan Kuan told Shi Hao that the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths had to endure the End of Dharma calamity.
  • Shi Hao agreed that causal closure required some wounded figures to undergo nirvana rather than be saved, preserving the history of Yan Kuan’s future.
  • Pan Wang voluntarily Dissolved into Dao after his Dao wounds proved incurable, and the Wild Heaven Emperor blessed him into Samsara, sending his Peach Immortal Tree body into the Void Cosmos.
  • The Wild Heaven Emperor treated other wounded Immortal Kings, and the damaged realms gradually stabilized over the following years.

Ch. 695Eternal Dominance, Returning to the Future (Main Story Finale; Sacred Ruins Extras Will Be Updated)

After the Dark Rebellion ended, Shi Hao explored the world beyond the Dark Portal, prepared the Immortal Realm for his departure, and eventually achieved Eternal Dominance to protect it. Yan Kuan then traveled through time to rejoin Ye Fan, Empress, and the others on a battlefield, where he returned as an Immortal Emperor.

  • Shi Hao mourned the fallen in the Heavenly Court cemetery, then joined Yan Kuan to forge Immortal Emperor weapons from the spoils of the Ultimate Ancient Land.
  • Shi Hao and Yan Kuan entered the Dark Portal, and Shi Hao traveled across the Crimson Bloodwater before returning with knowledge and a Key to another world.
  • Shi Hao reunited with old friends, extended the lives of people from Stone Village, and departed again with Huo Ling'er to save those lost in the distant world.
  • After a great roar reached the Immortal Realm, Shi Hao appeared and used Eternal Dominance to sever his homeland from the wars beyond the Heavens.
  • Yan Kuan left Willow Deity and traveled through time toward the Future, where he returned to the battlefield and reunited with Xiao Nannan, Empress, Ye Fan, and Wushi.

Ch. 698Sacred Ruins Arc (1): The Oncoming Darkness, the Strange Soul River

Yan Kuan discovered that the darkness invading the Myriad Heavens had returned in a more insidious form, and he reinforced Shi Hao’s fading barrier of Eternal Dominance while fighting threats beyond it. He traced the invasion to the Soul River and witnessed how it consumed the souls of the Myriad Heavens.

  • Yan Kuan examined the new Dark Matter and found that it could hide within Longevity Substance and gradually darken living beings.
  • Yan Kuan reinforced the barrier of Eternal Dominance as darkness erupted across the Myriad Heavens and transformed contaminated beings into enemies of their own worlds.
  • Yan Kuan erased many dark forces beyond the barrier and identified the invading army as coming from the Soul River.
  • Yan Kuan saw a crystalline Path of Samsara form and watched countless walking corpses turn to ash as their soul lights were drawn toward the Soul River.
  • Yan Kuan witnessed soul lights disintegrate into grains of dust along the Soul River’s shore, one of four places where the Weird Plateau Sacrificed beings from the Myriad Heavens.

Ch. 700Sacred Ruins Arc (2): At the Soul River End, the Chief Priest Appears

Yan Kuan probed the Soul River End, uncovered Shi Hao’s words on an ancient monument, and fought back the souls and forces awakening within the river. As the Soul River threatened All Heavens, a bony hand emerged from a Strange Land and crushed Yan Kuan’s attack, revealing the arrival of Gray, a Chief Priest of The Strange Lineage.

  • Yan Kuan’s strike cleared the fog around the Soul River End and revealed Shi Hao’s monument, including his promise to return.
  • A powerful creature crawled from the river, but Yan Kuan killed it with Immortal Light and severed the Soul River, provoking countless soul lights to resist him.
  • The Soul River awakened, and Ancient Gates began to emerge as Yan Kuan suppressed its surging waves and challenged the hidden forces to come out.
  • A Strange Land appeared, threatening to make All Heavens collapse, and a bony hand reached through torn time and space to crush Yan Kuan’s Immortal Light and Dao Sound.
  • Yan Kuan identified the arriving figure as Gray, a Chief Priest of The Strange Lineage, as the bony hand continued descending.

Ch. 701Sacred Ruins Arc (3): Piercing the Sacrificial Ground, Refining the Gray Mist

Yan Kuan shattered the Soul River’s Bony guardian and forced the Main Sacrificial Ground to reveal itself, drawing the Chief Sacrificer into battle. As the Chief Sacrificer’s descent brought Gray Mist and the threat of a Grand Sacrifice, Yan Kuan intercepted him beyond All Heavens and trapped him in Emperor Fire.

  • Yan Kuan destroyed the Bony Great Hand and attacked the Main Sacrificial Ground, killing its Bony Creature and causing the Soul River world to be swallowed.
  • The Main Sacrificial Ground drew in Soul River Creatures as Gray Mist, black blood, and white miasma poured through a hole in the heavens.
  • The Chief Sacrificer began descending toward the Myriad Heavens, while Yan Kuan unleashed Empyrean Flame to burn away the invading substances.
  • Yan Kuan crossed beyond All Heavens to intercept the Chief Sacrificer before he arrived and exchanged blows with him across the Void.
  • The Chief Sacrificer recognized Wild Heaven Emperor in Yan Kuan’s encirclement, and Yan Kuan’s Emperor Fire drowned the Gray Mist and began refining the Ominous Substance.

Ch. 702Sacred Ruins Arc (4): Weirdness Is Hard to Kill, Testing the Ancestor

Yan Kuan overwhelmed the Chief Sacrificer and forced his way into the Main Sacrificial Ground, where he attacked the memorial tablets despite the danger. The tablets toppled and cracked, stirring the Ancient Coffins and causing upheaval, as Yan Kuan tested the power of the Weird Progenitors and the Weird Plateau.

  • The Chief Sacrificer revived after Yan Kuan refined Gray Mist, but Yan Kuan struck him down repeatedly and damaged the Sacrificial Ground.
  • The Chief Sacrificer unleashed countless arts, including attacks through time, fate, and Karma, but Yan Kuan resisted them and inflicted Backlash.
  • Yan Kuan broke through the Sacrificial Ground’s defenses and entered it, while the Chief Sacrificer warned that the place could condemn him to eternal silence.
  • Yan Kuan attacked the memorial tablets, provoking ghostly sobs and visions of Ancient Coffins as the Chief Sacrificer struggled to protect them.
  • Yan Kuan toppled a memorial tablet and cracked the Sacrificial Ground, triggering a vast upheaval before the power’s effects were contained within the forbidden ground.
  • The Chief Sacrificer fell vomiting blood as iron chains appeared beneath the tablets, and Yan Kuan continued testing the power behind the Weirdness.

Ch. 703Sacred Ruins Arc (5): Bridge of Life and Death, Clone and True Body

Yan Kuan’s near-equal clone defeated the Gray Chief Priest, carried him and the Sacrificial Ground to the Bridge of Life and Death, and disappeared into its depths, making the battle seem like ancient history. The true Yan Kuan then revealed himself to Ye Fan, Wushi, and the Empress, weakened by the clone’s loss and planning a new journey of Samsara.

  • Yan Kuan shattered the Chief Sacrificer and used his power to restrain the Sacrificial Ground while refining the Gray Chief Priest.
  • Yan Kuan opened a passage through the Sacrificial Sea and took the Gray Chief Priest to the Bridge of Life and Death, intending to sacrifice him there.
  • Yan Kuan led the Sacrificial Ground and the Gray Chief Priest into the depths of the bridge, after which the battle appeared as ancient history to observers across the Myriad Heavens.
  • Wushi speculated that beings who traveled upstream along the River of Time could turn the present into history, and another Yan Kuan appeared to confirm part of his reasoning.
  • Yan Kuan explained that the vanished warrior was his near-equal clone, told the Empress he wanted Xiao Nannan back, and asked them to warn Little Stone not to attack the Plateau directly.

Ch. 704Sacred Ruins Arc (6): Counterattacking Calamity Earth, Contacting Shi Hao

Shi Hao attacked Calamity Earth alone, battling the Weird Immortal Emperors while Yan Kuan returned after killing the Gray Chief Priest and joined the fight. Yan Kuan warned Shi Hao that the Weird Plateau could not be breached by force, and Shi Hao began considering another way inside.

  • Shi Hao’s blood vitality and sword strikes shook Calamity Earth and destroyed dark universes as he fought through the Weird Immortal Emperors.
  • Yan Kuan showed Ye Fan, the Beginningless Great Emperor, and the Empress a vision of Shi Hao’s battle and explained the danger posed by the Weird Plateau and its Ancestors.
  • Shi Hao fought off the siege, smashed a Weird Immortal Emperor apart, and challenged the enemy’s claims of invincibility.
  • Yan Kuan appeared in Calamity Earth and threw the Gray Chief Priest’s head before the Weird Immortal Emperors, revealing that he had killed him and returned from their territory.
  • Yan Kuan told Shi Hao that entering the Weird Plateau required embracing ominousness or being escorted inside by a Weird Ancestor, and Shi Hao considered the latter possibility.
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